[Capdist-announce] GIRL WITH A CAMERA" - a new work by author Byron Nilsson - Opens Friday May 9th 2025

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For Immediate Release

Contact:  Constance Lopez (office) 518-329-6293     (cell) 518-610-2896

 

          "GIRL WITH A CAMERA" - a new work by author Byron Nilsson "

 

COPAKE, NY -Constance Lopez & Lora Lee Ecobelli are pleased to announce the
upcoming production of Girl With A Camera, a new work by Byron Nilsson
opening Friday, May 9th, 2025 at the Claverack Free Library.

How does a creative artist come to terms with sudden fame? Photographer Ivy
Wilmot found success as a photo-journalist but became a public figure when
she married a movie star. As the marriage unraveled, so too did her career.
There was another man in love with her - but he was the FBI agent
investigating her father. Girl With A Camera shows us a life that couldn't
be constrained in the borders of a photograph.

 

Girl With A Camera will open Friday, May 9, 2025 and performs May 9, 10, 11,
15, 16, 18, closing Sunday May 18, 2025.  Thursday, Friday and Saturday
performances, curtain is at 7:30 pm, Sunday curtain is 3:00 pm. For tickets
and reservations please call (518) 758-1648.  This production is being
presented under the auspices of the Actors' Equity Association Members'
Project Code. The producers are grateful for the collaboration of The
Claverack Free Library, Blue Horse Repertory Company and RARE, Inc/The Two
of Us Productions.

 

The cast for Girl With A Camera includes  Constance Lopez as photographer
Ivy Wilmot; Linda Storms as Ivy's high school teacher Jeanne Morris, a
frequent needy visitor in Ivy's life; Andrew Joffe as Julius Wilmot, Ivy's
father, a well-respected optical & electronics engineer; Steve Leifer as
Lester Borders, an FBI agent with his own artistic pursuits; Lora Lee
Ecobelli as Nancy Rosetti, a photo editor as Harper's Bazaar magazine; and,
Jonathan Tarpy as Ivy's troubled movie star husband Marc French.  This
production is being directed by Stephen Sanborn.  Author Byron Nilsson is
collaborating in this production and will be holding talkbacks immediately
following the performances on Friday, May 9th and Thursday, May 15th.

 

Co-Producer Lora Lee Ecobelli is an award winning actress, filmmaker,
writer, director and teacher. As an actress, Lora Lee has performed both On
and Off-Broadway and in regional theatres throughout the country in leading
roles from the contemporary to the classics. She can also be seen in many
independent films and television. Lora Lee is the recipient of the Harold
Clurman award for best leading actress in an Off Broadway Play for her
performance in The Vice by Luigi Pirandello. Lora Lee is also a writer,
director and film maker and the Artistic Director of the Blue Horse
Repertory Company. Lora Lee is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association,
SAG-AFTRA.

 

Co-Producer Constance Lopez is an actress, director and young children's
theater educator.  She has performed in classics, musicals and contemporary
dramas and comedies both regionally and Off Broadway, originating the roles
of Natalya Puskin in Pushkin - A Poet's Search for Honor and Pauline in The
Widow and the West Indian Workman.  Connie has also appeared in a variety of
films and television. She is the Artistic Director for RARE, Inc/The Two of
Us Productions. Connie is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association and
SAG-AFTRA.

 

Author Byron Nilsson is an active writer and stage performer.  As an actor
he has worked with the NYS Theatre Institute, appearing in 1776, Miracle on
34th Street, A Wonderful Life, Fiorello!, Around the World in 80 Days, and
with many other companies including the Lake George Opera, Syracuse Opera,
and Musicians of Ma'alwyck.  Byron also presents a cabaret show with pianist
Malcolm Kogut,  <http://www.songstoamuse.com/> Songs to Amuse which does,
they hope, just that, presenting an array of funny and forgotten ditties
that reach back to vaudeville and music-hall days.  As a script & music
writer some of his produced shows include  <http://www.mr-sensitivity.com/>
Mr. Sensitivity as part of the 2009 NY Fringe Festival;  Drivers at Ensemble
Studio Theatre; the one-act musical iFind You @ Last with music by Tom
Savoy; and his cantata Buxtehude's Daughter with the Musicians of Ma'alwyck.
Byron is a member of Actors Equity, SAG-AFTRA, and the Dramatists Guild.

 

 

 

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